AUTHOR'S POV Hardin's eyes roamed around the whole room before stopping at Sia who was giving him a hateful look. “ You lied to me! ” Sia hissed and rushed to Hardin before grabbing his coat, glaring at him. “ Sia! Look. Its not like this. ” Louis buttoned up his shirt back and came closer to her but Sia was not listening. She was just glaring at Hardin with tears filling up her eyes. She did not want to believe anything. But the evidence was in front of her. When she read John's diary today, Sia found out that John was the one who gave all those evidence against them to Hardin so he could blackmail her to marry him. And Louis staged all the drama of getting shot by him. In reality, it never happened. They all tricked and trapped her into marrying Hardin. She had even found the reason. The reason was simple. Hardin told John how evil Lucas was and John instantly agreed on

AUTHOR'S POV It was like Life had some kind of agenda against Sia. Everytime she thought, she would finally get some relief, life made her regret ever thinking like this. A week ago, they arrested her for Lucas's murder. Because apparently, her fingerprints were on the knife, there was a cut on her thumb, then Lucas had tried to kill her in defense after she stabbed him. And on the other note, The police received a tip about John and Emily's dead bodies. When they digged those graves, they found two bodies and identified them as John and Emily. There was Sia's necklace. Right in Emily's grave and she had an accident just a little away from those graves. So, everything was against her. Even if Lucas died, he made sure that Sia was never able to live in peace. He turned the whole world against her before dying. Right when Emma was finally back to Sia, they both were ripped apart from each other on

AUTHOR'S POV “ Sia! ” Louis called out to her as soon as the hearing was over and she turned her head at him, to stare him down emotionlessly. Gulping, he marched to her and stopped at a distance, hesitantly. Sia could see his reluctance clearly shining in his eyes but she did not care anymore. She really did not care about anything. “ I will be taking my leave now, Ms Martin. ” Austin Wayne announced from behind Sia with his hawk like eyes observing Louis. “ Sure. Thank you and Goodbye. ” Sia shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly without sparing him a glance as her eyes were busy gazing at Louis. Picking up his bag, Austin Wayne moved past both of them and walked out of the courtroom just like the rest of the people, leaving only Hardin, Harry, Louis and Sia behind to suffer in the suffocating silence. “ I am sorry. ” Louis blurted out as soon as he fou

AUTHOR'S POV “ I left her at the gate of the orphanage to save her life. ” The man said in a hoarse whisper. If there was not a mini mic attached to his shirt, Sia would not have been able to even hear his voice through the video playing. Confusion washed over Sia combined with dread that the man in the video might be talking about her. Her hands were trembling as she clicked on the pause button and the video stopped. Was she ready for it? No. No. She was not ready. She did not want to know whatever it was but staring at the man, she knew she needed to know what it was all about. With her shaky fingers, Sia pressed on the button again and the video starting running. “ Tell everything from the start. ” Lucas's cold voice appeared from behind the camera again and Sia held her breath. The man glanced at someone behind the camera and turned to stare right through

AUTHOR'S POV Sia embraced Emma closer not knowing what to say as a lump formed in her throat immediately. Emma placed her head on her shoulder and did not say anything else either. Sia's eyes travelled upto meet Hardin's baby blue orbs that were already staring at her with an unrecognizable emotion shining in them. “ I won't cry if you won't cry. ” Emma sniffed after a while and pulled away wiping her eyes with her small hands. Sia grimaced as she averted her eyes back to meet Emma's eyes that painfully reminded her of Emily's eyes. “ I won't cry. ” Sia shook her head as she pushed the tears back, looking at her. Emma pulled her closer once again and sighed out as Sia felt her heart hurting more. She was just a child yet she was like this. Emma pulled away instantly and her eyes shot up to meet hers. “ Will you play chess with me? ” The same excitement shined